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Steam Confederacy

Pressure is merely enthusiasm, contained.

Brass, copper, pressure bands and a gauge nobody trusts.

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Captain dossier · captain · Automaton Tinker-General Brekky Brekky’s brass bird perches on her shoulder while she works, occasionally drawing her attention to a loose fitting or an impatient visitor. She built it as a young mechanic, and… Steam Confederacy Captain dossier · captain · Pressure Steamwright Holm Holm’s enormous grin is familiar to anyone who has stood beside him in a hot engine room. He loves the moment a boiler reaches its working limit, when every pipe and fitting seems… Steam Confederacy Captain dossier · captain · Gambit Grandmaster Otto Otto wears a small chess knight at his throat, a keepsake from the years before his commission. He was a grandmaster then, admired for positions that appeared quiet until an… Steam Confederacy Captain dossier · captain · Deep Mechanism Clockmaster Quen Quen’s face is pale and finely cracked, framed by brass fittings and glass vessels. Strangers sometimes hear the knocking aboard Deep Mechanism, see the clockmaster, and conclude… Steam Confederacy Captain dossier · captain · Noblesse Oblige Countess Varren Countess Varren carries a small glass at her collar and a large collection of precedents in her memory. Every fight she enters begins the way her house has begun them for… Steam Confederacy Captain dossier · lord · Last Oath House-Warrior Caspar Achtmark Caspar Achtmark keeps the paper bearing his oath in a protective case. The house that received it is gone, its property divided and its surviving members scattered, but the… Steam Confederacy Captain dossier · lord · Brass Bastion Marshal Bexley Bexley keeps a pair of drumsticks crossed on his chest and an old hearing horn close at hand. The beat he favors once gave factory crews time to take shelter before a dangerous… Steam Confederacy Captain dossier · lord · Throne Engine Heir-Apparent Petra Drazsek Petra Drazsek was named heir at six, an age when the key at her collar seemed more like a prize than a responsibility. Forty years later, her grandmother still occupies the chair… Steam Confederacy Captain dossier · lord · Refusal Engineer-Regent Octavia Dunwarden Octavia Dunwarden took the regency when the heir was too young to govern. She stabilized the house’s foundries, settled debts, and made herself indispensable to people who had… Steam Confederacy Captain dossier · lord · Foundry-Boy Steamwright-Baron Mikael Ferren Mikael Ferren inherited a barony at twenty-two and discovered that a title could keep him farther from the foundry floor than any locked door. Advisers wanted him at ceremonies… Steam Confederacy Captain dossier · lord · Marriage Debt Cousin-Captain Lucan Holm-Brackett Lucan’s coat carries the colors of two houses that never wanted the marriage that joined them. The union produced a son neither side could comfortably reject and a ship neither… Steam Confederacy Captain dossier · lord · Open Claim Pretender Stellan Kallenbach Stellan Kallenbach knows how to make an entrance. His uniform is immaculate, his mustache is carefully curled, and the papers in his hand are tied with a ribbon chosen to be… Steam Confederacy Captain dossier · lord · Acknowledged Bastard-Lord Sirena Köhler-Rast Sirena Köhler-Rast wears two shields on her coat and knows exactly how much argument each one provokes. Her father, the late Köhler patriarch, acknowledged her publicly. His… Steam Confederacy Captain dossier · lord · Cadet's Privilege Tinker-General Aurel Marek Aurel Marek was the third son at a table where every meal seemed to become an argument about precedence. As a cadet of a foundry house, he had enough standing to be useful and… Steam Confederacy Captain dossier · lord · Settled In Blood Heir-Disinherited Tomasz Ostrick A scar crosses Tomasz Ostrick’s face, though the wound that governs his life is older than he is. One hundred and forty years ago, his grandfather lost a duel that carried away… Steam Confederacy Captain dossier · lord · Blade of the Foundry Dame-Engineer Branwen Stoltenberg Branwen Stoltenberg teaches that a duel begins before anyone draws a blade. The terms, the witnesses, and the reason for the challenge all matter, because a contest without agreed… Steam Confederacy Captain dossier · lord · Daughter of Drums Marshal Imogene Tannhauser Imogene Tannhauser inherited a distinguished name, but she holds the family chair because a foundry vote confirmed it. She mentions that vote often enough to irritate her rivals… Steam Confederacy Captain dossier · lord · Pressure of Inheritance Engineer-Prime Konstantin Vorderhall Konstantin Vorderhall believes a house should be heard before it is seen. His boilers announce Pressure of Inheritance with a thunder that delights him and tries the patience of… Steam Confederacy Captain dossier · lord · Held In Trust Regent Hrolf Wend Hrolf Wend accepted a regency thirty years ago, expecting to hand the house to its heir when the child came of age. The heir never reached that day. The charter contains elaborate… Steam Confederacy Captain dossier · lord · Drumline Marshal Yseult Zhulev Yseult Zhulev inherited the signal-corps marshalcy from her aunt, along with a set of well-used instructions and a reputation she had not yet earned. Her aunt could coordinate a… Steam Confederacy Captain dossier · leader · Gearbreaker Engineer-Prime Brackett Brackett’s hair is full of pencils, her pockets are full of tools, and the magnifying lenses across her brow are never quite where she last put them. She has taught generations of… Steam Confederacy

Hulls21

Hull registry · Tier 5 Automaton Steam Confederacy Hull registry · Tier 4 Pressure Steam Confederacy Hull registry · Tier 6 Gambit Steam Confederacy Hull registry · Tier 7 Deep Mechanism Steam Confederacy Hull registry · Tier 5 Noblesse Oblige Steam Confederacy Hull registry · Tier 6 Last Oath Steam Confederacy Hull registry · Tier 7 Brass Bastion Steam Confederacy Hull registry · Tier 8 Throne Engine Steam Confederacy Hull registry · Tier 7 Refusal Steam Confederacy Hull registry · Tier 7 Foundry-Boy Steam Confederacy Hull registry · Tier 7 Marriage Debt Steam Confederacy Hull registry · Tier 7 Open Claim Steam Confederacy Hull registry · Tier 7 Acknowledged Steam Confederacy Hull registry · Tier 7 Cadet's Privilege Steam Confederacy Hull registry · Tier 7 Settled In Blood Steam Confederacy Hull registry · Tier 6 Blade of the Foundry Steam Confederacy Hull registry · Tier 8 Daughter of Drums Steam Confederacy Hull registry · Tier 8 Pressure of Inheritance Steam Confederacy Hull registry · Tier 7 Held In Trust Steam Confederacy Hull registry · Tier 7 Drumline Steam Confederacy Hull registry · Tier 8 Gearbreaker Steam Confederacy

Codex1

Codex entry · Factions The Steam Confederacy The Steam Confederacy chose pressure. Where the others went to electronics or to living ships, the Confederacy went to boilers, valves, brass, and heat, and then spent a long time… Steam Confederacy

Fleet Intelligence1

Recognition guide · 2026-10-21 Small Craft Recognition: Steam Confederacy Carrier-borne small craft of the Steam Confederacy: bays, interceptors, gunships and bombers, as the hangar crews are taught to tell them apart at range. PLACEHOLDER DRAFT. Steam Confederacy

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